liz chatterjee

India, energy + infrastructure history, environment and/vs. development @UChicagoHistory

[liz chatterjee @natterjee]

Is there anything new to say about the 1973 oil shock or Indira Gandhi’s India? Here’s hoping so.
At long last, my article is out in the AHR: “Late Acceleration: The Indian Emergency and the Early 1970s Energy Crisis.” 1/
https://t.co/k6BfGazC6d

[liz chatterjee @natterjee]

A historic day. Good riddance to coal-fired power in Britain after 142 years!

[James Watson CEng, FIET @EngineerLondon]

A few minutes ago, Unit 4 turbo-generator at Ratcliffe-on-Soar power station desynced from the GB grid system, marking the END of electricity generation from COAL after 142 years 🇬🇧🙏🏻 @RobBurnett92 and I present a 🪡🧵on the evolution of coal fired power from 1882 to today 1/n

[liz chatterjee @natterjee]

@tushar15 Did you manage to get hold of these reports? I only have the 2012 classic and would love to see the updates for the later years. Any chance you'd be willing to share them? Thanks so much!

[liz chatterjee @natterjee]

@FredrikAlbritt1 Haha that’s a backhanded compliment!

[liz chatterjee @natterjee]

Freebie of the day: my new colleague Sam Daly’s exciting new book on militarism as an ideology and a (counterintuitive) legal culture, helping to explain the troubling persistence of military rule across Africa. Ft. oracles, Fela Kuti, and a lot of men in uniform

[Samuel Fury Childs Daly @sfcdaly]

Why did so many African countries become military dictatorships in the twentieth century? Militarism promised a utopia, and to some people it still does. Read Soldier’s Paradise: Militarism in Africa After Empire for free here: https://t.co/QVFUIOQplT

[liz chatterjee @natterjee]

@GaraviniG Wow! do you find that credible? Important to note that this is true only over a 20-year period given the shorter life of methane in the atmosphere, but still big. I need to get my mitts on his report and maybe rewrite my LNG chapter…

[liz chatterjee @natterjee]

@rohlamba Congrats, Rohit. Charming profile photo too!

[liz chatterjee @natterjee]

@laurenstokes Ah this sounds like such a great important project - I love the proposed traveler-centered structure too. We’ll have to drag you southwards for an update at the end of the year. Have a blast!

[liz chatterjee @natterjee]

@VBivar @acker_antoine Yes ma'am, though the failure of the solar cookers is probably more relevant to nation-building https://t.co/WF8Hv5tgvI

Honestly the best work at the intersection of gender (masculinity), energy + nation-building is being done by @JuliaKMead, who might have further suggestions

[liz chatterjee @natterjee]

"LIFE PUNISHES THE THRIFTLESS." Subtle thoughts on banking in/on the art deco Trustees System Service Building, Chicago (1929-30), ft. red marble from Oran, Algeria

[liz chatterjee @natterjee]

Guilty as charged. I see epigraphs like montages over the opening credits, a bit of mood music for what’s to come. But totally agree that they’re secretly more for the author than the reader, a little hoard of shiny magpie things displayed with all the charm of a rock collection

[liz chatterjee @natterjee]

@TehilaSasson @OxfordHistory @wadhamoxford Huge congratulations! Have a great time back in old Blighty

[liz chatterjee @natterjee]

This great new paper by @adityaramesh11 complicates cliches about big multipurpose dams reinforcing state power. At Mettur, he shows that hydroelectricity ran up against the irrigation interest of "an older extractive apparatus, that of agrarian property"
https://t.co/xhqk27KaqK

[liz chatterjee @natterjee]

@parhee Omg what a life you lead - this is among my life goals after that show

[liz chatterjee @natterjee]

@Robert_Suits This is fantastic news! Enormous congratulations. They are very lucky to have you, and I hope you have an absolute blast getting to know London!

[liz chatterjee @natterjee]

@hotdamhistorian And lord almighty the idea that the Hindu nationalist 🪷 would be preferable…! Might make one pause a bit before doling out electoral advice

[American Historical Review @AmHistReview]

During the 1970s, rising popular expectations in India collided with the energy crisis to impel a state-led embrace of coal, despite elite reservations about the environmental damage that would follow. Read more by @natterjee in the AHR’s June issue. https://t.co/QNhgorDG1g

[liz chatterjee @natterjee]

@jeffmanuel @TDysonRogers @OUPress Yesss congratulations both! What good taste OUP have. So excited to get my mitts on this

[liz chatterjee @natterjee]

@parhee w00t congratulations! May your copy editor be hawk-eyed

[liz chatterjee @natterjee]

Georgia O’Keeffe paints the fossil fuel city (1927-8). Current exhibition “My New Yorks” is well worth visiting at @artinstitutechi